Quotes About Steppe

#1. But I couldn't be sure we wouldn't all die here on the steppe with snow in our mouths and holes in our hearts.

Dan Smith

#2. And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

John Heywood

#3. My dream was to ride a horse from Mongolia to Hungary, 10,000 km across the great Eurasian Steppe, and in doing so, come to understand the nomadic cultures that have presided there for thousands of years.

Tim Cope

#4. For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.

Bryn Hammond

#5. What drew me to Kazakhstan was a curiosity to learn about life in this 'middle earth' of steppe between the endless forests of Russia in the north and the world's greatest mountain chains to the south.

Tim Cope

#6. In the initial stages of my journey, I was trying to travel too fast by horse by sticking to a 'five days on and two off' schedule. On the steppe, time is not measured by days, weeks or hours but the fall of the seasons and condition of the animals.

Tim Cope

#7. Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

Spencer Wells

#8. We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Johan Rockstrom

#9. I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.

Tim Cope

#10. If a girl is traveling in the steppe and she sees nothing but a single moving dot in the great distance, the dot sees her. Stag, man, wolf.

Atticus Lish

#11. He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.

Steven Pressfield

#12. For the traveller, Kazakhstan offers more than just a staging post for the Silk Road, as is often perceived, and there is more than just steppe.

Tim Cope

#13. Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.

Tim Cope

#14. Wheat is blond in the Steppe, yellow in the Prairie. Algae in the labs is many different brownish greens.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#15. Gazing at the faces of the horses and the people, at this boundless stream of life raised up by the power of my will and now hurtling into nowhere across the sunset-crimson steppe, I often think: where am I in this flux? GHENGIS KHAN

Victor Pelevin

#16. Not forever can one enjoy stillness and peace. But misfortune and obstruction are not final. When the grass has been burnt by the fire of the steppe, it will grow anew in summer.

Jean Sasson

#17. Hundreds of versts of desolate, monotonous, sun-parched steppe cannot bring on the depression induced by one man who sits and talks, and gives no sign of ever going.

Anton Chekhov

#18. - Come Inanna, enter, Neti said to her, and as Inanna entered the first gate, the sugurra, crown of the steppe, was taken from her head.
- What is this? asked Inanna
- Quiet, Inanna, she was told. The customs of the city of the dead are perfect. They may not be questioned.

Hal Duncan

#19. In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

Tim Cope

#20. There is something sad, dreamy, and in the highest degree poetic in a lonely grave ... You can hear its silence, and in this silence you sense the presence of the soul of the unknown person who lies under the cross. Is it good for this soul in the steppe? Does it languish

Anton Chekhov

#21. I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Lupe Ontiveros

#22. Best is the man who thinks for himself.

Hesiod

#23. He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.

Harlan Coben

#24. I stayed there only a week before I ran away. That was the first of many times I would run from a foster home. It was, after all, a foster home, and I did not belong there. It turned out that I did not belong anywhere.

Waln K. Brown

#25. Cole has a background that required him to fight like an animal," Blake said, seeming to choose his words carefully. "His dedication to the Church comes partly from what he endured as a child.

Debra Anastasia

#26. I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

Anne Tyler

#27. Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

#28. If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

June Jordan

#29. His intentions were good." He kissed the top of her head. "Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Joyce Meyer

#31. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Tony Robbins